In our textbook, “role confusion “is described as “not having a strong sense of who one really is.”(Larsen, 331.) And the text uses the example of a student that might try on the role of athlete one semester, and the next semester is the role of punk rocker etc. to explain the how adolescents tend to be lost and confused of who they really are. Role confusion does not happen to 1 or 2 teenagers, but in fact, it happens to almost all of us. Identity in this case can be the role that one plays at home, or trying to fit in a group at school etc.
The first identity struggle that comes to my mind is when a person is feeling like they’re neither a child or an adult, when I was in Psychology of Adolescent, my professor asked how many of us are adult …show more content…
When you’re in high school, you have the Athletics, the Cheerleaders, the Popular, the Nerdy, the Emo groups etc, well what if you’re not one of them? A lot of students tend to struggle trying to fit themselves into a group or an organization, so as stated in the text, one semester they may be in Art club and the next they’ll be trying out for a Sport club, you see them in all kind of different clubs and friends with many different people, it’s because they’re experiencing identity confusion, they don’t know who they actually are and who they want to …show more content…
I saw my friends majoring in Business, or Liberal Studies, or Culinary, I felt like they knew what they were doing, and I was just lost. Then I see my friends getting married and having kids while I’m still questioning myself if I am with the right person. Other people have no problem moving out their parent’s house, but I’m extremely close with my family so thinking that I must move out would drive me crazy, but at the same time I feel like at my age I should be on my own. People go through different stages, and some experience more extreme identity confusions than others, but we all go through it at a point in life, for some of us establishing our identity is easier than the rest of
The first identity struggle that comes to my mind is when a person is feeling like they’re neither a child or an adult, when I was in Psychology of Adolescent, my professor asked how many of us are adult …show more content…
When you’re in high school, you have the Athletics, the Cheerleaders, the Popular, the Nerdy, the Emo groups etc, well what if you’re not one of them? A lot of students tend to struggle trying to fit themselves into a group or an organization, so as stated in the text, one semester they may be in Art club and the next they’ll be trying out for a Sport club, you see them in all kind of different clubs and friends with many different people, it’s because they’re experiencing identity confusion, they don’t know who they actually are and who they want to …show more content…
I saw my friends majoring in Business, or Liberal Studies, or Culinary, I felt like they knew what they were doing, and I was just lost. Then I see my friends getting married and having kids while I’m still questioning myself if I am with the right person. Other people have no problem moving out their parent’s house, but I’m extremely close with my family so thinking that I must move out would drive me crazy, but at the same time I feel like at my age I should be on my own. People go through different stages, and some experience more extreme identity confusions than others, but we all go through it at a point in life, for some of us establishing our identity is easier than the rest of